Camerata Pacifica will present a series of chamber concerts featuring works for viola and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, and ...

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...

Beethoven's output for cello and piano spanned his lifetime -- starting with the two sonatas he composed in 1796; two near ...

Beethoven completed five Piano Concertos in under 20 years, but from the age of 38 he would never finish one again as his deafness stopped him from performing, writes John Suchet. Five completed Piano ...

A concerto usually features a single soloist — say, a violinist or a pianist — playing with an orchestra. So what was Ludwig van Beethoven thinking when he made a piano trio the soloist in his 1804 ...

Gilles Vonsattel first performed with Camerata Pacifica in 2017 and is now their principal pianist. He has played many Beethoven piano sonatas, but has been “genuinely” surprised by some that are ...

Ludwig van Beethoven came on the heels of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Those great composers had reached the peak of their expression, and music — all arts, in fact — needed to move along ...

Having followed with interest and admiration Andras Schiff’s slowly maturing Decca cycle of the Mozart piano concertos, a cycle that proved to be consistently interesting because it is built on a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the lockdown Daniel Barenboim said he had more time to play the piano than for 50 years. One of the ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...